This is one sad story to report on. Sun Danyong, 25-year-old employee at Chinese manufacturing company Foxconn, has committed suicide after being subjected to apparently rather rigorous interrogation methods by Foxconn's Central Security Division. Danyong handled a shipment of 16 iPhone prototypes, and one of them went missing. Update:Apple responds: "We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee, and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death. We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."

"I actually own three motherboards by Foxconn - my media centre's, my main workstation's, and my PowerMac G4's motherboards are all made by them. They're all working fine, and I'm quite happy with them. Hypocrisy?"

Exactly my thoughts. I'm pretty sure people are going to bash apple for dealing with foxconn but the ultimate power lies with the consumer. Why don't you stop buying iPhones or iPods? And Xboxes and Playstations and Wiis and Intel motherboards and kindles? (you can visit wikipedia for a rather impressive list)

Point is that a company that big may seem a good thing at first since it means lower prices but what happens when you stop liking those guys?